Quartz as a natural luminescence dosimeter

F Preusser, ML Chithambo, T Götte, M Martini… - Earth-Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Luminescence from quartz is commonly used in retrospective dosimetry, in particular for the
dating of archaeological materials and sediments from the Quaternary period. The …

Luminescence dating of glacial and associated sediments: review, recommendations and future directions

M Fuchs, LA Owen - Boreas, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Dating glacial and associated sediments is essential to provide a temporal framework for
accurate reconstructions of past climatic conditions and for helping to determine the nature …

Introducing an R package for luminescence dating analysis

S Kreutzer, C Schmidt, MC Fuchs, M Dietze, M Fischer… - Ancient TL, 2012 - hal.science
__________________________________… Abstract For routine luminescence dating
applications the commonly used Risø readers are bundled with analysis software, such as …

Luminescence dating: basics, methods and applications

F Preusser, D Degering, M Fuchs… - E&G Quaternary …, 2008 - egqsj.copernicus.org
Luminescence dating is a tool frequently used for age determination of Quaternary materials
such as archaeological artefacts, volcanic deposits and a variety of sediments from different …

A comparison of natural-and laboratory-generated dose response curves for quartz optically stimulated luminescence signals from Chinese Loess

MS Chapot, HM Roberts, GAT Duller, ZP Lai - Radiation Measurements, 2012 - Elsevier
It has previously been observed that laboratory-generated quartz optically stimulated
luminescence (OSL) signals from different samples have similar dose response curves …

Optically stimulated luminescence signals from quartz: A review

AG Wintle, G Adamiec - Radiation Measurements, 2017 - Elsevier
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) was first observed from natural quartz 30 years
ago. Since it increases with exposure to radiation, OSL has been developed as a dating tool …

The fast ratio: A rapid measure for testing the dominance of the fast component in the initial OSL signal from quartz

JA Durcan, GAT Duller - Radiation Measurements, 2011 - Elsevier
The signal from the fast component is usually considered preferable for quartz optically
stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, however its presence in a continuous wave (CW) …

R package numOSL: numeric routines for optically stimulated luminescence dating

J Peng, ZB Dong, FQ Han, H Long, XJ Liu - Ancient TL, 2013 - ancienttl.org
In luminescence dating, there are various software packages that can be used to do data
analysis, such as Analyst, Java RadialPlotter, SigmaplotTM and so on. There is also an …

OSL-thermochronometry using bedrock quartz: A note of caution

B Guralnik, C Ankjærgaard, M Jain, AS Murray… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) thermochronometry is an emerging application,
whose capability to record sub-Million-year thermal histories is of increasing interest to a …

OSL dating of individual quartz 'supergrains' from the Ancient Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada, Spain

LJ Arnold, M Duval, M Demuro, NA Spooner… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Dose saturation represents a fundamental limitation for obtaining finite optically stimulated
luminescence (OSL) quartz ages over Middle Pleistocene timescales. Single-grain OSL …